Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- Distance Education in Astronomy: At-a-distance and on campus, a growing force
- Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa
- A Multi-Resource System for Remote Teaching in Astronomy: its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners
- Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
- On-Line Resources for Classroom Use: data and science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other missions
- Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory – Project CLEA: contemporary laboratory exercises in astronomy
- Project LINK: a live and interactive network of knowledge
- Computer as a Tool in Astronomy Teaching
- Mathwise Astronomy and the Teaching and Learning Technology Project: aiding or degrading education
- A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
- The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
from 2 - Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- Distance Education in Astronomy: At-a-distance and on campus, a growing force
- Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa
- A Multi-Resource System for Remote Teaching in Astronomy: its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners
- Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
- On-Line Resources for Classroom Use: data and science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other missions
- Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory – Project CLEA: contemporary laboratory exercises in astronomy
- Project LINK: a live and interactive network of knowledge
- Computer as a Tool in Astronomy Teaching
- Mathwise Astronomy and the Teaching and Learning Technology Project: aiding or degrading education
- A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
- The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Summary
Introduction
The Open University is the UK's foremost distance teaching university. For over twenty five years we have been presenting courses to students spanning a wide range of degree level and vocational subjects. Since we have no pre-requisites for entry, a major component of our course profile is a selection of foundation courses comprising one each in the Arts, Social Science, Mathematics, Technology and Science faculties. The Science Faculty's foundation course is currently undergoing a substantial revision. The new course, entitled “S103: Discovering Science”, will be presented to students for the first time in 1998.
The University has always aimed to make use of appropriate technologies for delivering its teaching material. For the first time, this new version of the Science Foundation Course will make extensive use of fully integrated CD-ROM based activities. One of these is a “Virtual Telescope” package designed to give students an appreciation of what is required to measure the expansion of the Universe.
S103: Discovering Science
The four science disciplines of biology, chemistry, Earth sciences and physics each contribute in equal measure to the course. Whilst parts of the course are deliberately multi-disciplinary, in order to give students a feel for science as a whole, other parts of the course reflect the very different natures of the four component disciplines. The course will be studied over a thirty-two week period and is accredited at 60 CATS points at level one. (CATS stands for Credit Accumulation Transfer Scheme and is the national scheme within the UK for classifying higher education courses.) A degree is awarded for an accumulation of 360 CATS points, split between levels one, two and three.
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- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , pp. 100 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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